Out last night.
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Smellydog
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Tidy one.Jimny - 123,000 miles, sailed past the MOT in Feb after £80 welding job. Just the 12 years trouble-free motoring for me and going places nothing else could go and has just turned 18 - wots not to love?
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I had two over ten years, first one got wrote off when an heifer jumped in front of me at 50mph! It sent me airborne!
Got another one and had that for five years.
They fuelled the house in firewood for ten years. I sold near a thousand rabbits to a game dealer every winter via the jimneys and levelled hundreds of fox's from them. The the granddaughter arrived
.Anyway, the first jimney over five years cost me £600 in servicing and tyres.
Foxyboy43
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Yep - excellent service from the sainted Jimny but to be clear that photo was taken on the morning of the MOT - immediately after a steam wash. To be honest I didn’t recognise it.Tidy one.
I had two over ten years, first one got wrote off when an heifer jumped in front of me at 50mph! It sent me airborne!
Got another one and had that for five years.
They fuelled the house in firewood for ten years. I sold near a thousand rabbits to a game dealer every winter via the jimneys and levelled hundreds of fox's from them. The the granddaughter arrived
Anyway, the first jimney over five years cost me £600 in servicing and tyres.
Then there is the Shooting Brake version with the deluxe paint job……
Love it when a plan works. the westerly winds meant that a high seat overlooking the valley I thought a fox was living in was out of the question all last week. Tonights north easterly made it perfect to for it. It overlooks an earth on the far side. Got there an hour before dark and after 20 minutes spotted a a dark red movement. As I moved the rifle he stopped and looked straight at me but thankfully gave me time to get the cross hairs on his chest, big fella as well. Came back for a coffee and just thought I would pop back out to the farm buildings as they often come to those after midnight. Spotted one right in the yard so slipped around the back to the fox box near the pond. The moorhens roosting gave him away that he was coming towards me and I could see him sneaking around the ponds edge. Not easy to see on the thermal if he was clear of the brambles but luck was with me again. Most pleasiing when it goes to plan.
blueeyes
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I got a call at the weekend shepherd loosing lambs right left and centre and had seen a fox on two occasions I had hit this perm hard before lambing but surrounded by private forest and borders a housing scheme so always an influx , so took a run down sat evening sat for 4 hours nothing , took another run on Tues first light sat another 4 hours nothing , back down this morn just before dawn nothing , had found 4 lambs all intact and 3 ewes further over that had not even been opened up , there is a pair of Ravens on the ground and I watched a ewe fending them off the other night , but I think it the cold thats killing the lambs and the fox is a get out clause but have to make an appearance any way but hard when there is a takeaway in every other field lol
Score rises, more Vixens. Farmer and son Over the Moon
Another Vixen last night, makes a change to be down to singles.
Convinced I saw a fox with one cub in tow last night, long long way out, but I'm pretty sure.
Anyone have experience of Welsh hill foxes being spooked when squeeked?, Maybe it's a language thing.
Smellydog
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It's been educated which is short for someone missed it!Anyone have experience of Welsh hill foxes being spooked when squeeked?, Maybe it's a language thing.
Must be a lot of misses up these hills then, I won't even try a squeek anymore, Just have to be patient.
Smellydog
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I get the jitters at calling myself around here. Seen to many run away myself.
One year I could hear a device squealing away on the neighbouring land and a red light flashing around.
Between me and them and in my field was two fox's watching the light show so I snook up and took them.
On my two reports they packed up and left
Up to thirty now, on this new bit.
Struggling for safe clear shots as of last night, this hill farm has very few improved areas that will provide si/haylage, lots of rock outcrops & nettle forests, knee high rough grass well into seed,had two customers last night making like "Sniper at your feet"
Overlay
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three well on cubs and dog fox last night, not a caller in sight, come up bright as day for a while after midnight with the moon up
it was very warm as well , too warm just sat out hardly any breeze against a hedge looking over two old cut silage fields nice result on a sweaty night took the deuce instead of the 204 does the job admirably
my little jimny earning it keep
it was very warm as well , too warm just sat out hardly any breeze against a hedge looking over two old cut silage fields nice result on a sweaty night took the deuce instead of the 204 does the job admirably
my little jimny earning it keep
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Think I might rob that idea.three well on cubs and dog fox last night, not a caller in sight, come up bright as day for a while after midnight with the moon up
it was very warm as well , too warm just sat out hardly any breeze against a hedge looking over two old cut silage fields nice result on a sweaty night took the deuce instead of the 204 does the job admirably
my little jimny earning it keep
Overlay
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Done a few with it now and it’s working a treatThink I might rob that idea.
Foxyboy43
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Gosh - a man of some discernment, a blessed Jimny and the sainted triple deuce. Not many of us left……three well on cubs and dog fox last night, not a caller in sight, come up bright as day for a while after midnight with the moon up
it was very warm as well , too warm just sat out hardly any breeze against a hedge looking over two old cut silage fields nice result on a sweaty night took the deuce instead of the 204 does the job admirably
my little jimny earning it keep
Overlay
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They both do the job extremely well i must say, Jimny leaves no footprint in the wood if it was the ranger it would have gouged a track out, I would show a pic of the 222 but its from the dark side, don't want to stir the hornets upGosh - a man of some discernment, a blessed Jimny and the sainted triple deuce. Not many of us left……
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